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- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!sics.se!torkel
- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: Do completed infinite totalities exist? Was: Lowneheim-Skolem theorem
- In-Reply-To: paul@mtnmath.UUCP's message of 19 Nov 92 17:53:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.92Nov19201017@lludd.sics.se>
- Followup-To: sci.logic
- Sender: news@sics.se
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- References: <1992Nov17.124233.24312@oracorp.com> <TORKEL.92Nov18193457@bast.sics.se>
- <363@mtnmath.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:10:17 GMT
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- In article <363@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
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- >I think we can learn a lot more
- >about the notion of a real number from such research than we can
- >from proving theorems related to the continuum hypothesis.
-
- I have no objection to your inventing whatever mathematics you are
- capable of, on the basis of any ideas whatever. My negative comments
- are directed only at the notion that results in logic "show" that second
- order non-finitary concepts are not well-defined, or that we can do
- without them.
-